HIT Consultant June 2, 2020
As the healthcare industry becomes more connected, executives are increasingly looking for ways to digitally transform and provide next-level, life-saving care to patients. But it comes at a cost — and it’s not just monetary. The spiraling complexity of hospital networks is becoming a massive problem for health IT staff, and it’s inhibiting hospitals’ ability to advance. Brought on by years of network technologies and applications being layered onto the existing hospital infrastructure, healthcare organizations are now grappling with difficult maintenance, data and information silos, and security vulnerabilities.
It may be easy to focus on the flashier, patient-facing devices, or surgical robots when talking about health technology, but the network is the central nervous system of the entire hospital....